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Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry
Our investigation into AdVon Commerce, the AI contractor at the heart of scandals at USA Today and Sports Illustrated.Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)
When the updates stop https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/05/13/when-the-updates-stop
#tech #art #GamePreservation #gaming #future #RetroGaming
When the updates stop
What happens when the updates stop? For different machines and systems, this means different things. In this post, I’m referring to game consoles and games. Nintendo closed the Wii Shop Chann…space • time • tech
Is it just me, or os big #tech just creating a hornet's nest so they can employ hornet-whackers to lease to hornet-infested organisations?
Feels like we are setting up problems-to-solve here.
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#fediverse #tech #mastodon #community #fedidev #feditech #socialweb
It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that Steve's explanation of what happens in monopolistic companies is now coming true for Apple itself.
How many "product people" are in charge at Apple these days?
Because the execution on their products have declined a bit... and the culture of innovation, design and user-focused invention as a whole has essentially stopped.
#Apple #Tech #Monopoly #Business
https://chaos.social/@obrhoff/112369907442905273
If you're looking for an explanation of what's happening at Google with the current layoffs, just watch this video. Steve Jobs' reflections about what happened at Apple provide the best explanation. It's something you'll encounter in all corporate companies.
#google #stevejobs #layoffs #entshittification
This is truly one of the more baffling decisions I’ve seen in a long time. Tesla is a leader in charging infrastructure, to the degree that virtually every other carmaker is even adopting its standard.
Then Elon Musk laid off the entire Supercharger team.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145621/tesla-layoff-supercharger-ev-charging-nacs-elon-musk
#tesla #elonmusk #tech #cars #evs
Tesla layoffs hit Supercharger team just as it’s poised to take over EV charging
Tesla has laid off most of the employees who worked for the company’s EV charging teams, leaving many to wonder whether it was poised to lose ground on Superchargers.Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)
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The EU’s ‘right to repair’ rule is truly radical – British builders should copy it wholesale
The construction sector accounts for 62% of waste: that could be drastically cut if we chose refurbishment over demolition, says writer Phineas HarperPhineas Harper (The Guardian)
Balaji Srinivasan is calling for a “tech Zionism” that would see “Grays” loyal to the tech industry take over San Francisco by allying with the police to give themselves privileges as they oppress the “Blues” (liberals).
Essential read by @gilduran: https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.The New Republic
Why we suck at estimating software projects
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715342/why-we-suck-at-estimating-software-projects.html
> You can plan, strategize, chunk, fold, spindle, and mutilate a project for countless person-hours, and you still won’t know the difficulties that lay ahead in actually writing the code.
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote
> Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."
By @pluralistic : "The specific process by which Google enshittified its search" (24 Apr 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/
This is worth a read.
#BadEconomy #tech #enshittification #Internet #fuckery #corruption #InformationLiteracy
"The specific process by which Google enshittified its search" (24 Apr 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/
An interesting post by @pluralistic
#BadEconomy #tech #enshittification #Internet #InformationLiteracy
GENTLE REMINDER TO ALL #TECH WORKERS
before you go hustling for new work on these internets and fediverses, if you were laid off, HEAD TO THE CLOSEST #LABOR DEPARTMENT OFFICE AND DEMAND YOUR #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
you pay for #unemployment #benefits with each paycheck. DEMAND THAT MONEY.
here's a thread about what to do & what happens when you don't demand all your accumulated money & benefits.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111607803802146802
tell #techbros laying off people, fuck you pay me.
REMINDER FOR
LAID-OFF & UNEMPLOYED
AMERICANSthere is no shame in using all the social services you have paid with your taxes, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WHITE, MID/HIGH INCOME EARNER.
welfare is racialized in this country to deprive all Americans of the social services WE PAY for.
it’s imperative y’all flood social services offices because if you don't, that's why the griftocracy keeps cutting local, state & federal budgets.
so here’s what you can do after losing your job:
/1
Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.
It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html
Meta's Reality Labs posts $3.85 billion loss in first quarter
Mark Zuckerberg's bet on the metaverse continues to be a money-bleeding endeavor, with the unit reporting billions of dollars in losses every quarter.Alex Koller (CNBC)
Apple is cutting Vision Pro production as it fails to meet sales targets.
Analysts expected it to sell 700-800k units in 2024, but it could now be as low as 400k. A lower cost model could now be pushed beyond 2025, if it ever arrives.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138487/apple-vision-pro-cut-shipment-forecast-kuo-rumor
#apple #tech #visionpro #vr #ar
Kuo: Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments due to low demand
Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is cutting Vision Pro shipments for 2024 down to as little as 400,000 units.Umar Shakir (The Verge)
"The truth is that the ability to build Facebook-like services is relatively common. What was rare was the moral recklessness necessary to go through with it..." 👉 https://mastodon.social/@gyokusai/112301065732034869
I'd only add that in addition to showing certain people certain things to get them to act a certain way, these systems also afford the ability to manage what *not* to show those people - basically, keeping their bubble tidy.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #tech #SocialMedia #business #privacy @pluralistic
And while we’re at it, here’s @pluralistic's “Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags” again, probably the best essay on Zuck’s Evil Empire ever written:“No one would pay very much for this oil, but there were a lot of oily rags, and provided no one asked him to pay for the inevitable horrific fires that would result from filling the world’s garages with oily rags, he could turn a tidy profit.”
https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/
Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch…Locus Online
Tesla has to recall every Cybertruck it’s shipped. There are only 3,878 of them.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-accelerator-pedal-stuck/
#tesla #tech #cybertruck #cars
Our top story: Lone Star Literary Life, an online newsletter aimed at #Texas readers, writers, and librarians, was on the brink of closure. Here's how it was saved from going under ... https://www.texasobserver.org/lone-star-literature-website/
Saving Lone Star Literary Life
A literary website that has connected bookish Texans since 2015 nearly closed this year. Then one of its readers saved it.Lise Olsen (The Texas Observer)
I'm so excited about this upcoming space mission.
NASA has just confirmed that the Dragonfly octocopter will launch in July, 2028. When it arrives, it will spend at least two years flying over the organic-rich sands of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/news/20231128.php #space #science #nasa #life #tech